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jdhoreon Apple Abandons Development of Wireless Routers

I personally think that a good alternative is the Synology Router (RT1900ac I believe is the model number) and plug a USB hard drive into its USB port.

The router itself is $150 and you can easily find even like a 5TB external HDD for another $150.

jdhoreon Nexus 5

Part of the problem is since Verizon is CDMA and there's not really SIM cards, they can just say: "Your ESN doesn't look like a device we want to support, you can't activate it, sucks to be you"

jdhoreon Sublime Text 3 Public Beta

No. The Python API is being significantly improved in Vim 7.4, but there has been no notion of moving away from Vimscript or even dropping support for the other languages (Ruby, TCL, Lua, MzScheme and Perl (i'm probably missing 1, but meh)).

jdhoreon Plans for Vim 7.4

> If Sublime Text was Open Source and the vi mode better I'd switch in an instant. And probably a lot of people too.

You might but the thing is, Vim has been around for over 20 years and hasn't really lost any steam (and vi for another 20 years on top of that). Sublime has only been around for 5 years and it's closed-source meaning if the development dried up or something, it's a dead project. Vim has a high bus factor since it's only developer is Bram, but at least it's open-source so it can be taken over by someone.

jdhoreon Ack 2.0 has been released

I've contributed to ag and followed it quite closely. That being said, I still have ack on all my systems because sometimes, being able to just do:

ack --python search-term is REALLY useful.

jdhoreon Linode hacked, CCs and passwords leaked

I know the /. submitter (As he's the one who told me he submitted it to /. and he had the first /. link I saw), he's definitely NOT the hacker.

jdhoreon Wayland (X11 replacement) 1.0 Officially Released

I kind of disagree. The entire point of Wayland is to remove deprecated, crufty stuff to make a new form of display server. Remoting (in its current form) was on the list of stuff to remove.

If you need remoting, for probably a fairly long way into the future, X11 will still be supported and you can use that. If you want the new shininess of Wayland, sorry, you have to live without remote capabilities.

jdhoreon AWS issues, affecting Heroku and others

Running your own servers costs more for engineers/devops/sysadmins, but in terms of how much you pay to your provider, hosting your own is FAR cheaper if you have more than 1 or 2 instances. You can get a 10U GigE unmetered colo for $550/month from this place on WHT: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1200231

I'm fairly sure that if you have 10 instances at EC2, you're paying FAR more than $550/month.

The other benefit EC2 gives you is quick/instant deployment of even really high-end hardware if you quickly out-pace your current capacity and need another box ASAP, whereas even if you were doing dedicated servers, it still takes a hour or two for them to put your new box in a rack and get back to you with the IP and such.

jdhoreon Modern Vim

The problem is (at least with Vim), a installer/good default set of plugins and vimrc is VERY subjective.

Myself and 2 other guys from #vim on Freenode tried doing this a few years ago, but it wound up failing because we couldn't decide on that perfect set of stuff to put in it. Perhaps the idea would be more successful if there was only one developer to make decisions, but...